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Old 2007-11-04, 06:24   Link #1
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Star Ocean: The First Departure

It's an enhanced remake for the 1st Star Ocean, it's going to be released on PSP. New playable characters have been confirmed as well. There will be new voice actors, animated cutscenes and extensive amounts of new, fully voiced dialogue. With seiyu (Voice Actors) such as: Mamoru Miyano {Ouran High School Host Club (Tamaki Suou), Death Note (Light Yagami) & Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Setsuna F Seiei)} Also, Houko Kuwashima is here as well { Claymore - Clare, Gundam SEED DESTINY - Stella Loussier}. Moreover, this game is getting its own special edition bundle like Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, therefore, this game is definitely going to be a huge hit in Japan. Release date is set on December 27th 2007 of course. No American release date has been set so far. Import is the answer :P

Pictures of the special edition package:

http://www.psu.com/media/articles/st...n_psp_back.jpg
http://www.psu.com/media/articles/st...n_psp_case.jpg
http://www.psu.com/media/articles/st...n_psp_pack.jpg

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQM58Gm6IuM

Any thoughts & comments are welcomed
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Old 2007-11-04, 09:13   Link #2
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I preferred continuations than remakes, SO1 and 2 already had been good games in your times, I don't see for that to make remakes(I am excluding the factor "easy money to square" lol).
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Old 2007-11-04, 15:52   Link #3
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Heh, well, they are making SO4 but it's still deeply in development, but these enhanced improvements in this game are very appealing to me and I'm likely to get my own copy soon
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Old 2007-11-04, 16:34   Link #4
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I plan on getting the Eternal Edition+a few other PSP games... I just hope I don't run out of money to save my spares for January/February releases(Disgaea 3, DMC4, Wii, Brawl).
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Old 2007-11-05, 06:50   Link #5
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lol, we are all hoping that
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Old 2007-11-05, 15:34   Link #6
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You didn't mention that Yukari Tamura is in it...

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Old 2009-01-06, 22:44   Link #7
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I bought the game today and played more than 3 hours of it..

I made a small mistake which cannot be corrected, especially the fact that I saved the game 10 minutes later thinking that I had saved before the cutscene though that wasn't the case. I told Ruddle to go south instead of north and when I quickly catch up to the town due south, Ruddle said something about getting farther from his destination and decided to give up. Does this mean that Ruddle will not meet Rumina anymore? If that's the case, what items did I miss? In SO3, the two of them sold an awesome item that enabled an inventor recruitment. What about this game?
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Old 2009-01-06, 23:31   Link #8
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I don't remember exactly what you missed, but you didn't miss anything spectacular. I'm pretty sure it was a consumable item, and it was an item that sat in my inventory unused for practically the entire game.



But ah, good memories playing this game. Owning the bosses with Redwyrm Thundersurge, Torotoise Smash/Tiger Claw, and most especially Galaxy was just plain ridiculous. XD
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Old 2009-01-08, 10:55   Link #9
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The skill point glitch seems to be most useful. Once in awhile, I would get 100-115 SP after level up which helps a lot. Usually, you are supposed to gain the number of SP the same as your new level.
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Old 2009-01-08, 12:28   Link #10
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In all honesty, you don't need the skill point glitch. Just max the skill that reduces SP first and foremost (I believe it was called determination), and you'd have no problems with SP when tacked on with the super specialty enlightenment (of which determination is a part of anyways).

With this, you should max all your skills by end game (even the useless ones, like increase cast speed for fighter types), which is around lvl 100. If you really min/maxed, you should have all of it maxed by around lvl 80.
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Old 2009-01-08, 16:34   Link #11
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In all honesty, you don't need the skill point glitch. Just max the skill that reduces SP first and foremost (I believe it was called determination), and you'd have no problems with SP when tacked on with the super specialty enlightenment (of which determination is a part of anyways).

With this, you should max all your skills by end game (even the useless ones, like increase cast speed for fighter types), which is around lvl 100. If you really min/maxed, you should have all of it maxed by around lvl 80.
True, but it does make it easily considering that it normally requires 2-3 levels to raise one for Determination, whereas the glitch will raise 2-3 levels in one go making all other skills 1 SP requirement. My current Determination is Lv7 and I already maxed out 2 out of the 3 cooking components because vegetables (20 fol each) are cheap and they make great healing items (35-100% heal). I rarely use magical points (MP) unless during the final arena battles due to lack of healing items.

About the leveling, so there is no longer the Lv255 limit? Currently, Roddick's level is 34 and I thought it would take forever to reach 255, but if its 100, then it would be much quicker. I should get to it in awhile..
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Old 2009-01-08, 17:10   Link #12
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There is the level cap of 255 AFAIK, but considering even the optional super boss can be be beaten at the 70's/80's (either through Galaxy, Redwyrm Thundersurge, or Dragon Roar spam, pick your poison), it's really useless.
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Old 2009-01-08, 18:51   Link #13
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True, but it does make it easily considering that it normally requires 2-3 levels to raise one for Determination, whereas the glitch will raise 2-3 levels in one go making all other skills 1 SP requirement. My current Determination is Lv7 and I already maxed out 2 out of the 3 cooking components because vegetables (20 fol each) are cheap and they make great healing items (35-100% heal). I rarely use magical points (MP) unless during the final arena battles due to lack of healing items.

About the leveling, so there is no longer the Lv255 limit? Currently, Roddick's level is 34 and I thought it would take forever to reach 255, but if its 100, then it would be much quicker. I should get to it in awhile..
The first thing I did was pushing up his training and scouting talent. This helped to push to lvl 80 easily.
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Old 2009-01-08, 19:10   Link #14
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What level do you have to be to beat the flying metallic dragon in the Arena's Rank A round 2 match? Maybe, it is my weak equipment (sinclair + padded armor), it did about 2300 damage on me per hit, while I am doing only 60-70 damage on it. This doesn't seem right.. My level is almost 45, thanks to the round 1 Rank A battle which yields 10000+ exp. per battle.
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Old 2009-01-09, 01:51   Link #15
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You need at least a Walloon sword, which is a rare drop from those people with orange swords IIRC or advance until you get access to silvalant. Even then it would be tough unless you have berserker ring (craft a ruby) and/or Ring of might (craft an orihalcum, was it? I forgot).

I personally fought it with better weapons like dwarven sword or air slicer from the old race ruins, though at that point you can probably customize a nice earth sword that drains hp (forgot the name), or a bit later, you can customize the temporary luxurious swords into the permanent (and awesome) dueling sword. Gotta love that dueling sword, since it's the best non-elemental weapon for Roddick.

In anycase, just dragon roar spam him. God, that skill is so cheap. XD
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Old 2009-01-09, 19:06   Link #16
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You need at least a Walloon sword, which is a rare drop from those people with orange swords IIRC or advance until you get access to silvalant. Even then it would be tough unless you have berserker ring (craft a ruby) and/or Ring of might (craft an orihalcum, was it? I forgot).

I personally fought it with better weapons like dwarven sword or air slicer from the old race ruins, though at that point you can probably customize a nice earth sword that drains hp (forgot the name), or a bit later, you can customize the temporary luxurious swords into the permanent (and awesome) dueling sword. Gotta love that dueling sword, since it's the best non-elemental weapon for Roddick.

In anycase, just dragon roar spam him. God, that skill is so cheap. XD
How did you craft good items? Most of Roddick's skills are Lv10, yet I keep on getting tons of garbage like lame earrings, heavy rings, scrap paper, etc.. The only thing I got good on would be cooking, which rarely do I get the wilted salads (heals 50% HP) and the tasteless stews (heals 30% MP). The rotting sashimi causes poison, while the rest does nothing but sells for 1 fol each.

Last I tried crafting 3 sinclairs, it resulted as dull blades. I lost some green beryls, crystals, and diamonds to heavy rings. After getting Determination to 10, I got Effort to 10, then started maxing out most non-combat skills. As for my combat skills, it reached Lv5 for most of them. Still, it is entirely possible to get the paralysis status and game over. I am right outside Silvalant, hopefully they will sell the paralysis amulet, otherwise I won't be able to solo for awhile. Currently, each battle yields me about 7000 EXP and 4000 fol for Roddick and Ioshua. Not bad!!
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Old 2009-01-09, 20:06   Link #17
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First and foremost, IIRC all specialties has a requisite talent, like Sense of Taste for cooking. The character doing that specialty MUST have that talent, or else you fail 99% of the time. Good thing though is if you keep using a specialty, there's a random chance you'd learn the talent (and get 100 SP for your trouble as well).

You need the items that increase their success rate, like the Kitchen Knife in the town you get Ronix back. There's the hidden merchant in Silvalant as well, who sells the more important ones (like the one that increases customization, for example).

Alternatively, have someone with Sense of Design and Dexterity use Machinery over and over and over again. Sooner or later, you'd have all the items that increase specialty skills success rate.

Most importantly, you need to use music. IIRC, one of the violin music GREATLY increases the chance of succeeding. Alternatively, you can use Orchestra, but that one's shorter, so if you're trying to mass produce anything, it's much less effecient. And it's simple... you just have to use the specialty skill after the music starts but before the music ends to get the benefit.

With all that, you should succeed 90% of the time. Really useful for alchemy, since if you're gonna be using item creation a lot, you're gonna need a lot of special gems.
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First and foremost, IIRC all specialties has a requisite talent, like Sense of Taste for cooking. The character doing that specialty MUST have that talent, or else you fail 99% of the time. Good thing though is if you keep using a specialty, there's a random chance you'd learn the talent (and get 100 SP for your trouble as well).

You need the items that increase their success rate, like the Kitchen Knife in the town you get Ronix back. There's the hidden merchant in Silvalant as well, who sells the more important ones (like the one that increases customization, for example).

Alternatively, have someone with Sense of Design and Dexterity use Machinery over and over and over again. Sooner or later, you'd have all the items that increase specialty skills success rate.

Most importantly, you need to use music. IIRC, one of the violin music GREATLY increases the chance of succeeding. Alternatively, you can use Orchestra, but that one's shorter, so if you're trying to mass produce anything, it's much less effecient. And it's simple... you just have to use the specialty skill after the music starts but before the music ends to get the benefit.

With all that, you should succeed 90% of the time. Really useful for alchemy, since if you're gonna be using item creation a lot, you're gonna need a lot of special gems.
Oh.. No wonder why I had a failing rate of 99%.

The special items I got are: Lezard Flask, Keen Kitchen Knife, Magic Camera, Harmonica, and Book of Prophecy 1, 3, 5, 6, as well as 3 useless copies of New Book of Prophecy.

And Roddick's talents learned throughout the game are: Originality, Taste, Nimble Fingers, Composition, Love of Animals, Animal Instinct, and 4 empty slots. Is there any way to fill up those 4 empty slots using books? Funny thing is that I got most of the skills with maxed levels, yet my equipments and items are mostly useless.

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Tri-Ace is definitely something. These tips actually come in handy throughout the game.
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Old 2009-01-10, 13:25   Link #19
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It is this remake of Star Ocean: The First Departure that made this story finally make its place and first appearance in the United Kingdom. This game was never actually released in the UK officially which made it extremely rare to get a hold of and is also the reason why its sales exceeded to over £70, for the original Playstation version, when it was found on sales over the internet.

I downloaded a trailer onto my PSP and it looks quite decent. I am definitely considering purchasing this game. The only restriction that I have is all of the other games and DVD's that I want even more.
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Old 2009-01-10, 14:10   Link #20
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At Silverlant, I am having a problem..

How to make the Philosopher's Stone? I had this same problem while playing SO3 awhile back, it took me several hours before I succeeded. In this case, however.. I am not sure which character to use, but the only ones that have the crafting skill right now would be Roddick (Lv9 Alchemy, Lv9 Orchestra) and Ioshua (Lv8 Alchemy, Lv6 Orchestra). I also have all the required skills to Lv10, but after crafting 40 pieces of Iron, I got many heavy rings, quite a few lame earrings, 2-3 pieces of weighty rings (doubles light damage), a hefty earring, and 2-3 pieces of anti-poison amulets, as well as many pieces of ugly accessory that resembles the mandrake. Luckily, I didn't saved game, so I only wasted an hour of doing so rather than 6000 fol.

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It is this remake of Star Ocean: The First Departure that made this story finally make its place and first appearance in the United Kingdom. This game was never actually released in the UK officially which made it extremely rare to get a hold of and is also the reason why its sales exceeded to over £70, for the original Playstation version, when it was found on sales over the internet.

I downloaded a trailer onto my PSP and it looks quite decent. I am definitely considering purchasing this game. The only restriction that I have is all of the other games and DVD's that I want even more.
Actually, this is not a remake of Star Ocean: First Departure, but that the game itself is named as such, while that it is the remake of Star Ocean (snes).

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They have renamed all the characters and improved it so much that it is very similar to SO3.
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